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Kindergarten · Math · Unit 5 of 12

Make 5 and 10

Fill frames to 5 and 10

What your child practices

Using 5 and 10 as anchors (fingers, five and ten frames), finding how many more make 5 or 10, and breaking numbers into two parts.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: K.2(I) · composing and decomposing numbers up to 10

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A ten frame has 10 boxes.
  2. Fill boxes to show a number.
  3. The empty boxes show what is missing.

Example: Show 7 on a ten frame. How many more make 10? Fill 7 boxes. 3 boxes are empty. Answer: 3

Make 5 and 10 in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 5 of 12 in Kindergarten Math, after More, Less, Same and before Add & Take Away.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which two make 10?

    10
    • 7 and 1
    • 7 and 3
    • 5 and 3

  2. Question 2

    6 🐥 in all. How many are hiding?

    🐥?
    • 5
    • 3
    • 7

  3. Question 3

    9 🐸 in all. How many are hiding?

    🐸🐸🐸🐸?
    • 5
    • 3
    • 4

  4. Question 4

    Is this less than 5, just 5, or more than 5?

    • less than 5
    • just 5
    • more than 5

  5. Question 5

    How many dots in all?

    • 7
    • 8
    • 6

  6. Question 6

    How many more to make 5?

    🔴🔴🔴⚪⚪
    • 2
    • 3
    • 1

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